歠

歠 U+6B60, 歠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B60 ← 歟 [U+6B5F] CJK Unified Ideographs 歡 → [U+6B61]

Translingual

Han character

歠 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 水田弓人 (EWNO), four-corner 7768₂, composition ⿹欼酉)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 573, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16228
• Dae Jaweon: page 961, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2153, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6B60

Chinese

trad.		歠
simp. #		歠
alternative forms		吷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (叕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蝃	*tɯːds, *tjod
欼	*sʰrɯʔ
綴	*tods, *tod
醊	*tods, *tod
畷	*tods, *tod
啜	*tods, *djods, *tod, *tʰjod, *djod
餟	*tods, *tod
腏	*tods, *toːd, *tod
錣	*tods, *rtoːd
輟	*tods, *tod
娺	*tul, *rtoːd
窡	*rtoːd, *rtoːd
鵽	*rtoːd, *rtoːd, *toːd
掇	*toːd, *tod
剟	*toːd, *tod
裰	*toːd
敠	*toːd, *sʰlod
惙	*tod
罬	*tod, *ktod
叕	*tod
歠	*tʰjod
逫	*tud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰjod): phonetic 叕 (OC *tod) + abbreviated semantic 㱃 (“to drink”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuò (chuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³
• Eastern Min (BUC): chiók

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuò
    • Wade–Giles: chʻo⁴
    • Yale: chwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuoh
    • Palladius: чо (čo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: zyut³
    • Yale: jyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jud³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syːt̚³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chiók
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuɔʔ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhwet

Rime
Character	歠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	薛 (82)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	昌悅切
Baxter	tsyhwet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰʷiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰjuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰwiat̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭuɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyut3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tʰot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chuò
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhwet ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰot/
English	taste, eat, drink (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	歠
Reading #	1/1
No.	17815
Phonetic component	叕
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	歠
Old Chinese	/*tʰjod/

Definitions

歠

1. (literary or Eastern Min) to drink, to sip, to suck

   Synonym: 啜

Japanese

Kanji

歠

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu)
• Kun: のむ (nomu, 歠む)

Korean

Hanja

歠 (eum 철 (cheol))

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Vietnamese

Han character

歠: Hán Nôm readings: xoét, xuyết

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References

• Nom Foundation